Letters : Feedback fooled

Ed Subitzky and I were delighted to see our work finally appear on the pages of New Scientist.

The final item in Feedback (14 June), on "the ultimate disclaimer notice", sent in by Adam Quantrill, is in fact an extract from a science humour piece we wrote in 1990 that was published in The Journal of Irreproducible Results in 1991.

Strangely, we did submit the whole piece to New Scientist in 1990, thinking it might do for an April Fools' Day issue but it was turned down much to our disappointment.

However, by the strange karma of modern communications the piece, having found its own way onto the Internet and having knocked around there for years, caught the eye of one of your readers, who sent it to the Feedback column. Somehow the piece fulfilled its own destiny by sneaking in the back door of the magazine ...

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